Planetarium BAR

Public shows at Planetarium BAR: Yes

Bar with Megastar star projection on a small dome; evenings only. Check the official site for the current schedule and tickets before you go.

A planetarium show is the one astronomy outing that clouds and city lights cannot cancel. Most public shows run 30 to 50 minutes; live shows, where a presenter flies the sky to tonight's planets and constellations, are the best preparation for a night at a dark site. Shows often sell out on weekends and school holidays.

4-9-23 Shirokanedai, Tsutsui Shirokanedai Building 5F, Minato, Tokyo, Japan 108-0071. Phone +81 334-40-2595.

Planetarium BAR has a 4 m (13 ft) dome

That makes it a small dome, typical of schools, colleges and portable shows. The largest planetarium domes in the world are about 35 m across; a classroom dome is 5 to 8 m.

Its star projector is the Ohira Tech Megastar Zero, an optical instrument that shines pinpoint stars through a ball of lenses, the classic planetarium sky.

How dark the real sky is outside Planetarium BAR

Planetarium BAR has no Bortle rating in the list yet. The scale below shows what each class looks like.

Sky brightness and class come from the World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness (Falchi et al. 2016, CC BY-NC 4.0), with natural skyglow added, at the coordinates below. Planetariums sit in towns, so the dome shows the sky the street outside cannot; the dark sky places nearby show the real one.

Planetarium BAR among the planetariums of Japan

Pink dots are planetariums, green dots observatories open to the public, squares dark sky places and diamonds star parties; select one for its page. See Planetariums in Japan for the full list.

The coordinates on this page point to town center of Shirokanedai, Minato, Tokyo (approximate): 35.638°N, 139.726°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Planetarium BAR

Nearest dark sky places

Observatories open to the public within 150 km

• National Astronomical Observatory of JapanMitaka, Tokyo, Japan, 17 km (11 mi). Mitaka campus open daily 10 am-5 pm, free; solar observation weekends; regular stargazing open course
• National Astronomical Observatory of JapanMitaka, Tokyo, Japan, 17 km (11 mi). Mitaka campus open daily for a free self-guided historic-telescope tour; regular stargazing evenings by lottery
• Gekko ObservatoryKannami, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, 87 km (54 mi). Open 9:30 am-5 pm, closed Mondays and 4th Tuesday; adults 1200 yen incl. planetarium
• Usuda Star DomeSaku, Nagano, Japan, 129 km (80 mi). Public night viewing with 60cm reflector on open days; beginner astrophotography classes
• Usuda Star DomeSaku, Nagano, Japan, 132 km (82 mi). Public viewing through large telescope, 10 am-10 pm

Astronomy clubs within 150 km

• Astronomical Society of JapanMitaka, Japan, 16 km (10 mi)

Other planetariums within 150 km

• Cosmo Planetarium ShibuyaShibuya, Tokyo, Japan, 3 km (2 mi), 17.0 m dome
• Science Museum (Kagaku Gijutsukan) - Sinra DomeChiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, 6 km (4 mi), 10.0 m dome
• Nakano ZERO Planetarium (Momijiyama Culture Center)Nakano, Tokyo, Japan, 9 km (6 mi), 15.0 m dome
• National Museum of Nature and Science - Theater 36Tokyo, Japan, 10 km (6 mi), 13.0 m dome
• Konica Minolta Planetarium Manten in Sunshine CityToshima, Tokyo, Japan, 10 km (6 mi), 16.0 m dome

Planetarium BAR record

From the site's planetariums dataset (planetariumsglobal_q426). Distances are computed from the coordinates.